For The Course Creator, Coach Or Product Seller Who Has Started To Notice That Everything They Produce Now Comes Out Fine... And Somehow Not Theirs
“Everybody Just Got A Robot. Almost Nobody Noticed What That Did To The Price Of Everything They Make.”
There are seven things left that cannot be averaged, copied or generated. Here is what they are, which one you are missing -- and the buttons that build them for you.
Hello,
Marlon here.
Can I ask you two questions?
First one. When did you last send something out and get an actual reply from an actual human being?
Not a click. Not an open. A reply.
Second one, and this is the awkward one. Have you looked at something you produced recently -- a page, an email, a post -- and thought this is fine, and it could have been written by anybody?
If both of those landed, you are not imagining it, you are not lazy, and you are not behind.
Something changed. Almost nobody has named it out loud. And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
It Started For Me With A Piece Of Copy That Was Perfectly Good
I have been doing direct response since 1997. Sold north of 70,000 products. I am not new at this.
Some months back I was looking at a draft I had put together with a bit of help from the machine, the way most of us do now.
And I could not find a single thing wrong with it.
The sentences were clean. The structure was right. Better than what I would have managed on a tired Tuesday afternoon, honestly.
I hated it.
And I could not tell you why, which bothered me more than the copy did. I have made a living for nearly thirty years being able to look at a piece of writing and say exactly what is wrong with it. Now I was looking at something I disliked and coming up empty.
So I Sat With It For About A Week
Then it landed, and it landed hard.
HERE IS WHAT I FINALLY WORKED OUT
The problem was never quality. It was identity.
Nothing was wrong with the writing. Something was missing from it.
Those are two completely different problems. And they have two completely different fixes -- which is exactly why buying a better tool never solved it for me, and has probably never solved it for you either.
A better tool gives you better sentences. It does not put back the thing that got taken out.
And once I saw that in my own work, I started seeing it everywhere.
Everybody's stuff is fine now. Everybody's stuff is clean. Everybody's stuff is competent.
And everybody's stuff is starting to look like everybody else's stuff.
Which Led Me To The Part That Genuinely Worried Me
For about thirty years, the hard part of this business was making things.
Whoever could produce more, faster, better -- that person won. That was the whole game. I built a career on being able to produce.
That stopped being true, and it stopped being true fast.
Making things is now nearly free and very nearly infinite. Which means, whether anybody likes it or not, making things is now worth close to nothing.
And here is the part that should stop you cold.
Almost Everybody Just Pointed Their Expensive New Robot
At The Half Of The Business That Just Became Worthless.
More content. More emails. More posts. More of the one thing whose price just collapsed.
Meanwhile the other half -- being known, being trusted, being somebody a stranger will actually open an email from -- did not get cheaper.
It got more expensive than it has ever been in my working life.
You Can Feel This Even If Nobody Has Explained It To You
You feel it as silence. You send things and nothing comes back.
You feel it as invisibility. You have been at this a while and people in your own market still have not heard of you.
You feel it as that faint wrongness in your own material that you cannot name, and that your readers can probably sense before you can. They will never tell you what tipped them off. They just quietly stop opening.
And underneath the whole thing sits the one nobody says out loud.
THE THING NOBODY SAYS OUT LOUD
It is not that you are falling behind.
It is that you might be dissolving into the average -- and you can feel it happening.
That is not paranoia. It is an accurate reading of what actually changed. And it is fixable, but not by producing more.
And Before I Go Further, Let Me Say The Thing Nobody Selling An AI Product Will Say
Some part of you thinks using these tools is cheating.
I am not going to tell you that is silly. It is not silly. And every other person selling you something in this space needs that thought to stay buried, so nobody names it.
Somebody described it to me in a way I have not shaken since. It is like starting a video game at level one when the cheat codes to level one hundred are sitting right there. Using them feels wrong. Not using them means everybody who did leaves you standing.
That is not a complaint. That is a trap with two doors and you do not like either one.
SO HERE IS WHERE THE LINE ACTUALLY SITS
Hand over the production. Never hand over the judgment, the stories or the relationship.
Letting a machine shape a first draft out of your own words is not cheating. Letting it do a week of research in an afternoon is not cheating.
Letting it decide what you believe, invent things that never happened to you, or answer a real person who wrote to you personally -- that is where it stops being help.
Nobody here is cheating. Some people just got the instructions.
So What Is Left That Cannot Be Averaged?
That turned into the only question I cared about, and I spent weeks on it.
The answer came back as seven things.
Seven. Not seventy. Not a moving target that changes every time somebody launches a new tool with a lowercase name.
Seven things that a machine cannot produce for you, cannot copy from somebody else, and cannot flood the market with -- which is precisely why they are the only things still worth owning.
And when I looked at them properly, something else became obvious.
Almost nobody is missing all seven. Almost everybody is missing one.
Which is why so much effort goes nowhere. You can spend a year hammering on a part of your business that was already fine, while the actual broken link sits there untouched.
INTRODUCING
The Done Buttons
The Seven Things That Cannot Be Averaged -- And 17 Buttons That Build Them For You
It is a report in two halves, and the second half is the reason it exists.
The first half is the seven. What they are, how to tell which one you are missing, and what fixing it actually involves. No slogans. If a section tells you to do something, it tells you exactly how.
The second half is seventeen Done Buttons.
You paste one in. You fill in a couple of blanks about your own business. You press go.
And a finished thing comes back.
- You find out which one you are missing -- so the next month of your effort goes somewhere instead of polishing a part that was already fine.
- You stop doing most of the work -- because seventeen of the jobs come with a button that hands you the finished asset rather than another list of ideas.
- You stop sounding like everybody else -- permanently, from one pass you only ever do once.
And I Want To Be Clear About How Little Work This Is
You are not installing anything. You are not learning a platform. There is no monthly fee waiting for you on the other side of this.
If you can copy and paste, you can run every single one of them, in whatever you already use.
Open the report. Find the one you are weakest on. Read that bit. Run its button. Go and do something else.
ONE SMALL DETAIL THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING THAT COMES BACK
Every Done Button ends with an instruction telling the machine to be blunt with you.
Left alone, it will tell you every idea you have is exciting and every headline you write is compelling. That feedback feels lovely and it is expensive, because you will act on it.
These are built to make it argue with you instead. That one detail is the difference between output you use and output you quietly delete.
A Taste Of What Is Waiting Inside
I am not going to lay the whole thing out here. But here is a sense of it.
- The Voice Engine. One pass. Twelve things it works out about how you actually write that you have never consciously noticed about yourself. Out the other end comes something you paste into any tool you own, forever, and the "it sounds like a robot" problem stops being your problem. You do this once in your life.
- The Story Miner. You have already written a book. You have simply never noticed where it is. This finds it, and then tells you the one thing about your own material that no editor would ever catch.
- The thing your readers noticed before you did -- and the reason they cannot tell you what it was.
- The Contract Guard. Nine questions. If you have ever paid good money for something and quietly wondered whether you are actually allowed to use it the way you intend to, run this before you sign anything. It answers that in the first line.
- Why the man who gives away a thousand books a month never tries to sell one -- and the single-sentence test he uses to decide who gets one.
- What a casino's 52-to-48 edge has to do with why most free offers generate absolutely nothing. Fix this and the same offer starts working. Miss it and nothing else you do to it matters.
- The Scorecard Machine. Answer a handful of questions about what you sell. Get back the whole apparatus -- the questions, the scoring, the personalised report and the follow-up already written. This is the one I would build first if I were you, and there is a reason I say that.
- The four tells that give away an automated message instantly -- and the one instruction that removes all four at once.
- The Pitch Machine. The job that eats four to eight hours of anybody's week, reduced to reading and nodding. This is how you get in front of audiences somebody else spent years building, without becoming a full-time hustler about it.
- The one question to ask on day one that almost nobody thinks to ask -- and why silence has almost nothing to do with whether people liked what you sent.
- The paragraph that quietly cancels everything you paid for. It is sitting in a very common sort of agreement, it is entirely legal, and almost nobody reads it until it is too late.
- The number the whole industry credits to the wrong university. If you have ever quoted it in your own copy, you have quoted it wrong, and somebody eventually checks.
- Three bigger jobs you hand over whole and walk away from. Come back later. It is done.
- And the two things I tell you flatly never to hand over -- whatever it costs you, and exactly why.
One Thing For Anybody Wondering If They Have Simply Got Too Old For This
A fair number of people reading this are closer to seventy than thirty and have started quietly wondering whether the ground has finally moved out from under them.
It has moved. Just not the way you think.
Producing got cheap. Anybody can produce now -- that is the whole problem.
What did not get cheap is knowing what is worth producing. Which offer will sell. Which headline is weak. Which market is already crowded. Which shortcut ends badly and how.
That is the scarce thing now. You cannot download it, subscribe to it or prompt your way to it.
You get it by having done this for a very long time.
The typing was never the hard part. Your thirty years is worth more in this environment than it was in the last one -- and almost nobody has worked that out yet.
AND IF IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED TO YOU
Some people reading this are not worried about being replaced. It already happened. Somebody found a subscription they thought could do what you do, and that was that.
If that is you -- the anger was appropriate. The conclusion most people draw from it is wrong.
They did not replace you. They replaced the part of you that was replaceable.
Several of the seven have no software equivalent at all. That is the entire point of them.
How Do You Know Any Of This Is True?
Reasonable question, and the internet is currently drowning in confidently written nonsense.
So here is the standard I held this to.
Every link in it was opened and read before it went in. Not remembered. Not assumed. Opened.
Every number is credited to the study it actually came from -- and when I found that one of the most-quoted statistics in this industry is routinely credited to the wrong institution, I fixed it and said so in the report.
And anything I could not verify came out. There were claims I wanted to keep. Good ones. Ones that would have sold harder than what replaced them. They went, because a shorter honest report beats a longer one with holes in it.
Four Things I Am Including Free To Remove Even More Of The Work
The Outreach Swipe Pack
Every script in the report, pulled out into its own file with the blanks left open. You are never sitting there wondering how to word it.
The Printable One-Pager
One page. Two versions. Print it, put it in your pocket. It turns something most people get badly wrong into something you simply hand over and let somebody else follow.
The Just-Do-This Sheet
Every decision in the whole report, already made for you. Use this. Ask for that. For the days when you do not want to think about it and you just want it done.
The Question Bank
A hundred ready-written questions across common markets, so you are never staring at a blank page wondering what to ask.
Now Let Me Deal With The Thought You Are Probably Having
You have bought something like this before. It is in a folder. You opened it once.
I know, because I have that folder too.
Somewhere out there people are selling packs of two thousand six hundred prompts. If volume were the answer, everybody who bought one would be rich by now. They are not. Because nobody in the history of the world has sat down and worked through two thousand six hundred of anything.
Seventeen You Will Actually Use
Beats Two Thousand You Will Not.
That is why there are seventeen. And why each one hands back a finished thing instead of another idea for the pile.
You do not need more discipline. You need less to do.
Here Is Everything You Are Getting
| The Done Buttons report -- the seven things, fully researched | $47 |
| The 17 Done Buttons -- nothing to install, nothing monthly | $97 |
| The 3 bigger jobs you hand over whole | $47 |
| Free Bonus -- The Outreach Swipe Pack | $27 |
| Free Bonus -- The Printable One-Pager | $17 |
| Free Bonus -- The Just-Do-This Sheet | $27 |
| Free Bonus -- The Question Bank | $27 |
| TOTAL VALUE | $289 |
I could sell this for a great deal more and sleep perfectly well. The research alone took weeks, and one section of it will save somebody a problem that costs considerably more than the whole report.
But I am not going to, and my reason is a selfish one.
This only does anything if you actually open it. Something sitting unread in a downloads folder is worth nothing to you and nothing to me. I would rather it be cheap enough that you buy it now and open it tonight.
You Are Not Risking Anything
THE 7-DAY OPEN-IT-AND-SEE GUARANTEE
Get it. Open it. Find the one of the seven you are weakest on, and run its button.
If what comes back is not worth many times what you paid, write to my support desk inside 7 days and I will return your money. Keep the report.
I am comfortable saying that because I know what tends to happen when somebody runs the first one. They come back and run four more.
What This Will Not Do
It will not build your business while you sleep. Anybody promising you that is selling something worse than a report.
I cannot promise you an income. I do not know your market, your offer, your price or how much of this you will actually do, and I am not going to pretend otherwise.
And one more thing I feel strongly about.
I have watched people turn down paid work rather than put automated rubbish out under their own name, because doing it made them feel grubby. I understand that completely and I am not going to ask you to get over it.
You should not have to pick between your standards and your income. This is written so you do not have to. Automate the work. Never automate the relationship.
Being decent is about to become a competitive advantage, for the simple reason that hardly anybody is going to bother.
One Last Thought
The tools everybody has stop working. I have watched it happen for nearly thirty years.
There was software once that pulled fantastic traffic out of Google. Everybody bought it. Google changed something and it was dead in a blink.
The same thing is going to happen to whatever everybody is passing around this month. Not because the tool gets worse -- because the supply of what it makes goes up.
What does not get commoditised is the seven. And what is strange about this particular moment is that they have never been cheaper to build or worth more to own.
Everybody is going to have the robot. Almost nobody is going to have the seven.
Best wishes,
Marlon
P.S. -- If the thing bothering you most is that your material comes out perfectly competent and somehow still not yours, that is the one I would fix first. The problem was never quality. It was identity. There is a single pass inside that sorts it out, you only ever do it once, and everything you produce afterwards changes.
P.P.S. -- You do not have to do all seven. Please do not try. Find the one you are missing, fix that, and come back for the next when you feel like it. At $17 with the guarantee, the only thing you are risking is finding out which one it is.
